Word: reclaim
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...when your prefeminist, stand-by-your-man performance prompts millions (including me) to label you a doormat, it is hard to reclaim your anonymity. Like a state trooper who keeps hundreds from speeding by pulling over one scofflaw, McGann might have slowed down a few philanderers with a decisive show of force. But she resisted playing to the crowd or saving face, to the near universal scorn of the sisterhood. "I didn't know that feminists had decreed what the politically correct rules were for personal relationships," she says. "I did what was right...
Concerns about Syria began to escalate in August, when officials in Damascus started threatening to use force to reclaim the Golan, the Syrian plateau captured by Israel in the 1967 war. Syrian President Hafez Assad was plainly frustrated by the policies of the new Israeli government of Netanyahu, who, unlike his two immediate predecessors, rules out a return of the strategic high land in exchange for a comprehensive peace treaty...
...Democrats have heated up this race by choosing Johnson, a respected lawyer with a long political resume. He became Speaker of the state House in 1990 at age 36, the youngest person ever elected to that post. Vowing to reclaim this district, which the Democrats lost in 1994, he says his priorities are to balance the budget, improve education and create jobs. Johnson raised most of his campaign funds within Oklahoma, saying this was to limit the influence of out-of-state contributors...
Kanjorski is an unusual breed of Democrat: he votes against federal funding for most abortions, supports school prayer and opposes NAFTA. In his district, he secured a project to reclaim mine-ravaged northeastern Pennsylvania; and with Carbon County's unemployment running as high as 2% above the national average, he supports a program to offer businesses $25,000 loans for each job they create...
...chairwoman of the committee that created the district she now represents, Johnson was devastated by the June Supreme Court decision declaring the 30th District unconstitutionally gerrymandered. In what was once a fairly easy race for Johnson, she now may have to wait until a Dec. 10 runoff to reclaim her seat since six new candidates have joined the race...